Firebug photos on Flickr

I was wandering around Celle with the kids I am teaching photography to on an activity week, when I spotted these little bug things walking around on some leaves. On closer expression I was surprised to see that they all had these outrageous areas coloured like face masks on their backs.

Any ideas as to what they are?

Thanks westpark, for identifying them as Pyrrhocoris apterus / firebug

German: Feuerwanze

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Pyrrhocoris apterus (Firebug) (Pyrrhocoridae) by Simon Oliver

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Wishful Thinking by Andrew _ B

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Inspired by Gary Larson's Far Side comic Hopeful parents.

Job listing stolen from craigslist (I edited the HTML via Firebug, sadly these jobs are not real).

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John J. Barton by Norby

John J. Barton of IBM demos Firebug on stage at Velocity 2008.

Photograph from Velocity 2008 in Burlingame, California, presented by O'Reilly Media. Produced by Good Company Communications.

A beetle beeing exhausted by a "true bug", ♀ by gbohne

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A female firebug (Pyrrhocoridae) just caught a Pleasing fungus beetle (Family: Erotylidae).

Here a photo of the fungus beetle before becoming a prey:

www.flickr.com/photos/gbohne/5420151721/

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta (insects, Insekten)

Order: Hemiptera (true bugs, Schnabelkerfe)

Suborder: Heteroptera (real bugs, Wanzen)

Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha (Baumwanzen i. w. S)

Superfamily: Pyrrhocoroidea

Family: Pyrrhocoridae (firebugs, Feuerwanzen)

Genus: Probergrothius? Kirkaldy, 1904

Indonesia, W-Papua, S Manokwari: Syoubrig (Mokwam), ca. 1600m asl, 15.08.2010

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Pyrrhocoridae - Pyrrhocoris apterus by Ashley Wood

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located & photos by Steve Jeffs; Sompting, West Sussex

April 15 & 20th 2012

Pyrrhocoris apterus (Firebug) (Pyrrhocoridae) by Simon Oliver

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Mating firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) [eldlus in Swedish] by Vilseskogen

Stockholm, Sweden (Sverige), April 2012.

Firebug in Kaw Kwang by Chrisseee

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Now I can say, that using lighter will be even easier to use than a battery.

Canon EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS (kit lens)

30sek, f/7,1, ISO 100

How to burn steel wool tutorial.

junglebug by Hans HLR

it's kind of a where's Wally thing

Bestioles rouges et noires by Arria Belli

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Pyrrhocoris apterus, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

Rose Elinor Dougall 1 by Nigel Ritchie

Beetles>>Taiwan>>firebug by wei-shen Yang 楊維晟

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超難拍的飛行

有格放約1.5倍

Menendez @ Firebug by Peter Butler

Full House by Shawn Landersz

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believe it or not, there were another couple that flew away before i could take this picture.

Ninfa Hemiptera * Eurydema *Chinche de las Crucíferas by jacinta lluch valero

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instar final de Eurydema ornata

El género Eurydema tiende a compartir espacios y épocas de reproduccíon. Lo normal es encontrarse a las tres especies más abundantes sobre las misma matas de plantas. Esta son E. oleracea, E. ventralis y E. ornata, y las ninfas, se parecen mucho entre sí.

Emergence by Anders Sandberg

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Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus, swarming on a stump in the garden of Palazzo Arese Borromeo in mid-May.

Silent Devices by David Wilson Clarke

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Silent Devices playing White Noise Festival, Firebug, Leicester, UK.

Firefly 螢火蟲南化水庫台南 by 潘立傑 LiChieh Pan